#containers

Apache Mesos 1.5 is here! What new features does this open source cluster management tool have to offer? Significant improvements to resource management, increased storage, and Container Storage Interface support, for starters.

Serverless has grown considerably in the past few years but is it ready to embrace its maturity? And does that mean running away from NoOps or toward it? In the last part of our interview series, we invited six JAX DevOps speakers to weigh in on the serverless movement, its “competition” with container-based cloud infrastructure and the challenges Kubernetes and Docker should be addressing this year.

Should you pay more attention to security when drafting your DevOps approach? Is there a skills shortage in the DevOps space? Will containers-as-a-service become a thing in 2018? We talked with Nicki Watt, CTO at OpenCredo about all this and more.

Is Java ideal for microservices development? Should companies continue to invest resources in this direction? We invited seven JAX DevOps speakers to weigh in on the microservices hype, Java’s place in all this and what’s happening in the container world.

Docker is revolutionizing IT — you’re probably hearing this phrase quite often. Still, these questions linger: If we were to look beyond the hype, what’s so disruptive about Docker technology? What are the differences between Docker and a virtual machine? What is hype and where does the real added value lie? We talked with Lorenzo Fontana about all this and more.

Containers are all the rage right now but this doesn’t mean they don’t have their pitfalls. JAXenter editor Gabriela Motroc caught up with Jörg Schad of Mesosphere to talk about how to debug those pitfalls if you do encounter them and what’s next in the container world.

If you’re looking for a project that builds lightweight VMs which feel and perform like containers but offer security advantages of VMs, you’re in luck. There’s a new open source project called Kata Containers that aims to build “extremely lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem.”

The countdown for JAX DevOps 2018 has begun. If you would like to dive deeper into topics such as Continuous Delivery, Microservices, Docker, and clouds, this is your chance to hear top experts talk about the latest trends in this growing culture. Hurry up and save up to £700 – Blind Bird expires today!

containerd, an industry-standard runtime for building container solutions, has just reached its 1.0 milestone — that’s one year after Docker open-sourced it to make sure it receives the attention it deserves. Some of the performance improvements include the creation of a stress testing system, improvements in garbage collection and shim memory usage.

Containers and microservices are powerful tools for solving many of the problems we face with modern tech. In this article, Dale Vecchio explains why you should seriously consider switching from a monolith to a microservice.